Plan B morning-after pill to move over-the-counter

Girls as young as 15 can purchase the drug

The federal government has told a New York judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.

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They're not old enough to drive alone, but they can access Plan B alone. Tuesday's decision to allow girls as young as 15 years old to get the morning-after pill over-the-counter has some parents fuming.

"It's terrible. For a 15-year-old to be encourage to have that pill, I disagree with it very much," says Leah Noves.

Noves' daughter will be 15 in October. The idea her teen could take the contraceptive without her knowledge she says, crosses the line.

"The worse thing would be her hiding it from me," says Noves.

The Food and Drug Administration says the decision is a compromise just days before a court-imposed deadline that would've lifted the age restriction on the emergency contraceptive altogether.